Aug 17 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories on the New York Times business pages. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
- U.S. President Donald Trump announced that he would dissolve two councils of business leaders after a decision by the members of his Strategic and Policy Forum to disband. http://nyti.ms/2fMFB36
- A growing number of Federal Reserve officials see a need to adjust the central bank's assumptions on the economy, according to an account of the latest policy meeting. http://nyti.ms/2fMj2eT
- Eboni Williams, a host of the show "the Specialists" on Fox News, derided Trump in exceptionally blunt terms over his response to the violence at a white supremacist rally in Virginia on Saturday. In the days since her segment aired, Williams said she had received nearly 150 menacing messages from people who denounced her remarks and called her a traitor, a racist, a "disgrace," and anti-American. http://nyti.ms/2fNFPH2
- The Trump administration opened talks with Canada and Mexico on the North American Free Trade Agreement by asserting that the current deal had failed. http://nyti.ms/2fMP7Dg
- Some of China's biggest technology players are backing a plan to invest nearly $12 billion in one of the country's telecommunications giants, China Unicom Hong Kong Ltd, the latest move in a broader government push to shake up the country's bloated state-run companies. http://nyti.ms/2fMH3lP (Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom)